The pandemic has postponed or cancelled many plans, wreaking havoc on regular schedules and making it nearly impossible to figure out your calendar in advance with any sort of guarantee that six months from now you’ll still be able to do the thing you were hoping to do. People joke about time having no meaning anymore. But meanwhile there seems to be a growing recognition of how precious our time actually is, and a movement to take back some of it for ourselves. Along with this has been a trend towards digging deep into what is most important in our lives, and an urge to simplify.
Read MoreA fantastic rehearsal story from James Alexander Rankin:
“The majority of my theater experience has been on the stage; I haven’t had a massive amount of formal training. As a result, sometimes it takes me years to drink in a concept. That is usually paired with me observing actors around me, trying to understand their process and how they do things, or it can be me talking with directors and reading books on theory ad nauseam. Even after all that work it still takes an epiphany during a practical experience for me get an inkling of understanding.
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